Incident

The value of incident in a street - tower, belfry, silhouette feature, vivid colour and so on - is to entrap the eye so that it does not slide out into the beyond with resulting boredom. The skilful disposition of incident gives point to the basic shapes of the street or place; it is a nudge. The pattern is there but in the preoccupation of life our attention must be drawn to it. I think that it is through the lack of incident that so many meticolously thought-out plans fail to come to life in three dimensions.